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THOMAS S. PAGE, OF NEV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR rIO JAMES E. GREGG, OF SANTA FE, TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO.

CAR-HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 265,336, dated October 3, 1882.

Application filed December G, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. PAGE, ot New York, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful lmprovementsin Oar-Heaters; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the'same.

My invention relates to an improvement in car-heaters, the object being to provide a carheater which shall be simple and durable in its construction, and adapted to be applied to new or old cars at a small expense, and arranged and adapted to heat one side of the car by the smoke and products ot'- combustion and heat the opposite side of the car by heated air.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, as will hereinafter be described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View in longitudinal section ot' a car provided with my improvement, showing the pipe for conveying away the products -of combustion. Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the arrangement ofthe hot-air pipe. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the heater. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section ot' the heater. Fig. 5 is a view in front elevation. Fig. 6 is a detached view of the perforated hot-air pipes; and Fig. 7 illustrates a cold-air space formed between the heater and car-sill.

A represents a street-car, and B its floor. O is a heater, provided with a door,-I), for feeding fuel thereto. E is the grate, which may be stationary or arranged to dump, as desired. F is a sliding ash-pan provided with draftopenings d; or it may be provided with any construction of damper. .Around the ends and rear side of the heater is placed a jacket, G,

forming a hot-air chamber, H, with which connects a iue, I. Heater C is constructed with an upwardlyprojecting flange, b, to which is riveted or otherwise secured the downwardlyprojecting flange c, attached to or formed as a part of the top plate, K, the latter being constructed and arranged to cover the top of the heater, and also provided with an outwardlyprojecting flange, L, which rests upon the cariioor and serves as a support for the heater.

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The heater lop plate, K, is provided with a vertical drum or pipe, M, from which lead to opposite directions the two pipes N N', extending to the opposite ends of the car, and then attached to the vertical pipes O O', which extend upwardly and through the carroot', so as to discharge the smoke into the open air. Air is admitted to the hot-air chamber H through the perforations d in the bottom walls thereof', and 6o after having been heated is conducted through the horizontal flue I, that extends beneath the car-floor to the opposite side of the car, when it is conducted upwardly through the vertical pipe P and discharged into the branch pipes Q Q,' that are arranged beneath the car-seats.

The pipes Q Q are perforated, and preferably provided with a damper, It, as illustrated in Fig. 6.

From the foregoing it will be observed that 7o one side ot the car is heated by the pipe located under the car-seats, and serving to carry oi'Ih the smoke and products of combustion, while the other side of the car is heated bythe 4hot-air pipes located under the carseat. By 75 this construction and arrangement of parts the heater-pipe is located beneath the car-iioor, and thus no extra space is required for its employment, while the heat is utilized so as to secure its best eifects in a single type of appa- 8o ratus for the purpose in view, and is properly distributed within the car.

In the construction shown in Fig. 7 I have provided means for allowing both hot and cold vair to circulate freely between the stove and the frame-work of the car, so as to prevent accident by tire. To accomplish this end I have lowered the stove slightly and extended the jacket G around on the front, so as to cover that portion of the top which lies adjacent to 9o the car-sill and directly under the car -frame.

Between the car-frame and the jacket G, I have left a space or passage, P', for the admission of cold air, which is free to circulate between the jacket G and the car-frame and 95 rIhe air-space around the stove can roo the interior of the car. Then it is necessary to provide tbc stove with the air-space around it any suitable means can be provided for hold- I ing the stove securely in position.

It is evident that slight changes in the construction and relative arrangement of parts might be resorted to without involving a departure from the spirit of my invention, and hence I do not limit myself to the particular arrangement and construction of parts described; but,

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new7 and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a car-heater, the combination, with a heater secured to the under side ofthe car-floor, and provided with a branch smole-ue located within the ear and beneath the seat, and connected with vertical smoke-discharge tlues at opposite ends of the car, of a hot-air chainber connected with the heater, a llotair pipe extending transversely beneath the car-tloor, and perforated hot-air pipes located within the ear and extending in opposite directions beneath the earseat, substantially as set forth.

2. In a canbeater, the combination, with the heater located on the under side of the carioor, ot' a smoke iue that leads beneath the car-seats on one side o'tl the car, a hotair pipe that leads beneath the seats on the other side of the car, and a cold air space between the heater and car-frame7 the internal opening of the said eoldair space being covered with perA forated Zinc, substantially as set forth.

In testimony Whereofl have signed this speciication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

TH() MAS S. PAG lil.

witnesses:

IlnmmN MORAN, A. W. BRIGHT. 

